Category Archives: delusions of progress

1982: Science in Songs

Posted on September 13, 2015 by randomyriad
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Present-Tense Anthropology™

Posted on September 12, 2015 by randomyriad

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w2BfJKRpJR8/UpermRNc92I/AAAAAAAABJw/KirXDcGGG4s/s1600/ARMCHAIR+IMGP0185+crop.jpg “It isn’t revolutionaries and terrorist who make the nuclear power plants melt of blow their tops, or the electricity grids crash, or the automated trading systems go all higgeldy-piggeldy and write their billions down…

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A Short Note and Three Poems From My Journal on 2/1/14

Posted on September 7, 2015 by randomyriad

2/1/14 I like the controlled, refined space of my work table when I write in my notebook. Scene Change My dreams have moved into a new house, with glass doors and religion, Fat babies scurry here and there happily unaware. … Continue reading →

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Lena Dreams of the Wetlands

Posted on September 5, 2015 by randomyriad

Lena hadn’t thought about manatees in several years, but that did not stop her from dreaming about them that night in July. The merganser is the kind of crested duck that will rip your heart out of your living body, and then … Continue reading →

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It Is The Time of Monsters and We Keep Feeding the Monsters

Posted on August 4, 2015 by randomyriad

“Perhaps the most succinct characterization of the epoch which began with the First World War is the well-known phrase attributed to Gramsci: “The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time … Continue reading →

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